Travel nightmares to end as Andrews relents on borders

The New Year's travel nightmare will soon be over for thousands of Victorians after Premier Daniel Andrews relented on border restrictions, lifting a travel block on Brisbane and flagging the state would reopen to most of Sydney within the next "couple of days".

“These are not easy decisions … [but] I’m not about to cherry pick and only follow the advice that’s convenient from a political point of view,” Mr Andrews said. NSW recorded one new infection on Saturday following two days of zero cases and Mr Andrews said health officials “just want another day or two to be able to be absolutely firm" on shifting most of Sydney to an orange zone.

And open to all the worlds hotspots if you can hit a tennis ball!

Criticism? From who? Entitled, selfish aholes?

The policy was changed after... 'days of criticism.' Because porcelain DanielAndrewsMP just can't handle criticism... Hey, Michael and Zach, since you worked so hard to write all those words together, why not go and get yourselves an ice cream. SpareMe

The border should have never been closed to Qld or NSW. It took over 180 cases a day for a number of weeks for NSW to close its border to Vic. Andrews jumped based on a handful of cases in a limited area within Sydney. The economic consequences are devastating but he doesn’t care

Not because of criticism, he listens to science & advise from his CMO👍👍👍

More like the Herald Sun everyday Rubbish again and again

How about he relents his position as Premier? How many mistakes & lies can one person make!

I'm sorry... NSW was far quicker and far harsher to lockdown and maintain the lockdown on the Vic/NSW border when WE had COVID-19 issues in Melbourne. Now all I hear is how mean we're being to Sydney. Suck it up folks. What's comes around, goes around. COVID19nsw COVID19Vic

And then came the tennis players

'Victoria has lifted travel blocks on Brisbane and will soon reopen to most of Sydney after days of criticism from Peter Costello employees that the travel guidelines were unnecessarily harsh.' - Fixed it for you.

Thousands of families with small children locked out of their homes. Disgraceful from VIC ALP. Tennis players with the virus come on in.

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After days of criticism or because the health advice has changed?

About fck time

I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. The Age is stuffed

Gladys would be wise to wait. Vic has had one attempt at track/trace since lockdown. Patient zero MIA in a Thai restaurant. Good run but not complex. 1000 officials & players from worldCovid hotspots in Melbourne. Feel free to keep the borders closed. Let’s talk in a few weeks.

If you can't see this was his response to the outrage over the overseas tennis players coming in for the Open, then you can't think straight. 'health advice' my arssse

The Chairman has stuffed up again. The third wave has arrived via Andrew's tennis team Need somebody to bring the Virus, so he & his followers can blame NSW for the third wave.

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He’s only relented due to the Australian Open double standard. Victorians being played yet again!

Days of criticism by media who have NFI

Silly Dan.

Victorians have toughed this out. Still a lot of nerves out there. Excuse the caution please

Check out section 111 of the public health and well being act. Your welcome.

But wait!? Aren't all these policies data and scientifically driven? Pffft! If anyone is buying that after the whole tennis thing they are truly engrained into the house of Dan.

Gee that’s a surprise, he suddenly realised that inviting 100s of tennis players and their support teams in from Covid countries was a little worse than allowing 1000s of Victorians back in to their own state.... the man is an idiot at his best.....Duh he’s a genius

Surely the border closures were necessary to protect Australians from the failed policies of Gladys GladysCluster

🤔Dan did say, ‘last week’ that he would review Sydney travel areas ‘next week’; and guess what; that’s this week! Wow, how smart are journalists! CancelTheAge ThisIsNotJournalism AccracyMatters Sometimes a loud noise is just a journalist farting ☺️

I suspect it has more to do with the numbers coming out of those regions, rather than ‘relenting in response to criticism’. Andrews steadfastly guided us out of the second wave, standing up to immense pressure, to follow the health advise, and achieve 0/0, he’s not blinking..

Too late , the Andrews government is incompetent and evil .

They didn't do it because of your criticism. They did it because it's covid normal. Do you he gives a shit what you flogs have to say. Your in herald slum territory now.

I remember when The Age was a reputable newspaper, not newscorpse-lite. What a pathetic waste of time it now is, since becoming part of the Nine stable.

And if he didn't do it the Murdoch press would be screaming at him to do it

Dan Andrews just continued to listen to medical advice, not the newspapers.

Perhaps they always planned to remove the travel blocks as quickly as possible?

Welcome to knee-jerk politics folks!

He makes no apologies

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